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Adsense Approval After Several Attempts - What I Did To Get My Adsense Account Approved

Adsense can be a great way to monetize your site, but these days more and more sites are getting disapproved for Adsense with many people not knowing exactly why.

Adsense approval has become a great challenge, and partly so because Google has a very poor support service for publishers, except their Adsense help center which doesn't cover all the possible problems a publisher could have.

And their Adsense publishers forum where it takes forever for you to get an answer to your question.

When your account is dispproved for Adsense after you apply, you get a no-reply email saying "Unfortunately, after reviewing your application, we're unable to accept you into Google AdSense at this time" , and links to webmaster guidelines and policies your site is expected to meet before you'll be giving adsense approval.

Many times publishers don't even know what exactly they want them to do. I recently got this site approved for adsense and it was such a pain.

So I thought I'll share with my readers what I did for the different complaint or disapproval messages I got from Google. so that you too will know what to do, that's if you'll like to use Adsense to monetize your site but you're yet to get an approved account.

First Step to Adsense Approval

After I applied to adsense the first time to get this site approved, I got the Adsense disappproval reply/message below.

I put in a lot of time and effort to write unique and helpful articles and Google tells me I don't offer value? I cried. I didn't come online for days. I thought what was the point if my efforts are not appreciated.

But if you get the same message from Google don't take it personally. I read somewhere recently that Google doesn't even manually review your site, they use robots. I don't know how true that is, but anyhow, from my experience I can tell you that that statement doesn't actually mean your site does not offer value.

Google simply thinks it doesn't meet with their webmaster guidelines.

When you get a dispproval reply from Adsense support, you're allowed to make corrections on your site and re-apply.

So in trying to get my site approved after that reply I got to my application, I first went to their webmaster guidelines and read it word for word. I then realized that my site page titles and headlines may be guilty of keyword stuffing.

I used to use a headline and sub-headline for my pages. I did this for two reasons. One, to enable me add more related keywords to the headline of the page, allowing me to optimize the page for more than one keyword.

And two, to enable me use shorter headline and then use a sub-headline to describe the page. So most of my pages headlines and sub-headlines then used to contain at least two related keywords.

The page keyword in the headline and then one or two other related keywords in the sub-headline. So I thought Google could be seeing the different related keywords on top of the page as stuffing keywords.

So to correct this, I removed all sub-headlines from my pages and re-worded some of the page titles and headlines to make them more descriptive since I was no longer going to use sub-headlines.

Formerly my headline just read the page keyword of the page, the sub-headline then describes the page. After making this change I re-applied for Adsense.

Use the re-submit link included in the email Google sent you. Okay I did that and got the reply below.

Second Step to Adsense Approval

After I re-applied I got the response below:

I write my site content myself and I've never used any site's content. So I knew that the "unacceptable content" that Google refers to can not be my text content, it had to be my article images.

I guess some of them, or most of the images were copyrighted. Now if you didn't know before never use copyrighted materials on your site. When I just started this site I used to pick images from Google and use in my articles.

But I have long since stopped that. Any time I use images in my articles, they're either free to use images that require attribution, which I often give below the article, or paid for.

So all I needed to do was remove the copyrighted materials. But first I went and read the Google Adsense policies as they suggested.

Then I went through all my pages and removed all the images I knew I didn't get from a free site and didn't pay for. After doing this, I re-subitted my application.

Third Step to Adsense Approval

After I re-submitted my application, I got the following response.

That is pretty straight forward, I did as they asked, re-submitted my application and got the next response.

Fourth and Final Step to Adsense Approval

I already knew what was lacking on my site that they wanted me to add, because that was the only thing in the webmaster's guidelines that my site was yet to comply with.

But just to make sure all my basis were covered except for that one issue, I read the webmaster guidelines again word for word. And just like I thought I just needed to create and submit a sitemap for my site. A page that contains links to all the pages on my site.

At this stage I already said to myself that after doing this and I don't get an Adsense approval, then I don't know what else to do. It had to have meant something was wrong with their system.

So I created a sitemap for this site, and then went to my Google webmaster account and submitted the sitemap as instructed by Google in their guidelines.

After doing that I re-applied and that was it!

Update: Updating my sitemap was becoming too much for me and visitors where not really using it, so I deleted the page. I only created it because Google wanted me to. Since it was no longer serving any purpose, I had to delete it.

Tips to get your Adsense account Approved and Save yourself the troubles

• From my experience Google follows those webmaster guidelines and their Adsense policies to the teeth, so before even applying for adsense, read the guidelines and policies word for word and make your site comply with it.
• For more helpful tips on Adsense approval and general adsense use see the article on Google Adsense tips .

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